Question

In health communication course,

In two, well-developed paragraphs, select preventable health issues (infectious diseases) and describe the steps to how you would perform and audience analysis. Describe how you would utilize this audience analysis to plan future health communication programs.

minimum 300 -500 words answer without handwriting

Answer 1

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease , since it is a lung disease the infection spreads through air.We need to analyse the number of medications used by the patients and the duration of the medication.

Which medicines showed better treatment and thus we can increase their utility in the community so as to reduce the infections.

Patients food habits and other health profile can be collected .By knowing this information we can also try the drugs in combination so as to improve the recovery rate as well as its early detection.

Taking the above information into consideration we can plan for their prevention .Like .....

Taking all the medicines as they are prescribed by the doctor , do not stop them .

Cover the mouth as much as possible till u recover from the disease.

Changing the food habits of the people.

Infants need to be vaccinated .

DOTS strategy can be applied .

Community health workers can be trained to supervise the patients at patient home, training program for all the different levels of the staff from village health workers to physicians etc according to the patients requirement and accessibility ... can be cited for the program.